Final Update:Oct 06
This is a SAD A ND TRAGIC CASE FOR OTTO AS HE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH BY A MANIAC, Whom this town's judical system is defending and dont seem to care that the dog(OTTO) was so afraid and apparently fighting for his life when he bit (a small barely visible nip on the lip) this guy, the police/states attorney are defending the actions of this guy because he said the dog bit him.
Yes maybe so...AFTER the guy did something to him!....The dogs owner was so in fear of his own life, he fled the place after fighting with the guy and left the dog!...Then the guy beat the dog to death and in the intermin. Innocent Otto may have bitten him in his own defense!.....OTTO WAS NOT a aggressive dog and even many said this, as well as when help did arrive he still wagged his tail even though HIS SKULL WAS CAVED INTO HIS BRAIN!..he still wagged his tail!.
The police Chief Fife told me, they probaby wont do much at all, and especially since the guy had reason to do this!...NO WAY!!!!!!!!!...I am sick and furious....I hope you all will contact both this police dept and Sheriff Fife as well as the Attorney who is supposed to be defending OTTOS death by punishing this horrid animal abuser and killer!...

Jay Mattero 610-891-4754  direct number

fax 610-566-1334...Please call for Otto...and remind him that OTTO is dead now!...

and see post directly below

  

Jay Matteras is defending the abuser!..(he is supposed to be helping to prosecute the defender) but he defended the bastard by saying "he had a good reason for what he did he was attacked first!"  I said...OH that makes it ok to beat a dog instead of walking away!......he said well it was bad but the dog bite him on the lip we have medical proof!

 
 
  

Update (aug)on this is frustrating, as no one there seems to care, even those who have been assigned to help prosecute this case!...

Thay all seem to be defending the KILLER, ABUSER, MURDERER of this innocent dog named OTTO....please look back at the info and continue to contact the DA listed, send the petition LAST PAGE WILL DO or first and last page, email and call......I dont know what else to do.........
above is the attorney to contact!
Below is the sheriff phone and email...Please make contact with both and insite on felony prosectuion unless they have already let this sick menace dog killer loose!

610-521-3830

Please dont get upset, and remain polite even if they sound nonchalant...

ask about the date for this case and please do go....or email...

FIFEW@TINICUMTOWNSHIPPD.COM

Thanks everyone and please do make a voice for OTTO!

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Case Updates..

       Case Updates..(which is a crime itself reducing bail to 1.00)...!!!!!!!!!!!

Bail was reduced to $1 and a hearing was delayed on May 31 for a Tinicum Township man accused of beating and stabbing his roommate's dog so badly that the front of his head was caved in and he (Otto) had to be euthanized.

Gary Bradshaw, 41, remained in Delaware County Prison on a warrant for an unrelated crime, said Tinicum Township Police Chief Walter G. Fife Jr.

Fife said he didn't know the nature of the other incident. Bail in the dog attack had been $5,000, but the bail reduction was not uncommon, he said. (this is ridiculous)

Bradshaw's hearing on animal-cruelty and other charges filed after the 2:30 p.m. attack last Friday on the dog, Otto - apparently with a knife and possibly a crowbar - was rescheduled for June 14.(rescheduled again end of June)

Fife said Bradshaw told police the dog had bitten him on the lip.

The dog's owner told police he had left the house earlier in fear of Bradshaw, Fife said. No further details were given.

Dave Schlott, an animal-control officer called to assist another animal-control officer, Alan Strickler, said that when he arrived, the dog, a midsize mix believed to be part yellow Lab, had been on the porch, bleeding from the head and mouth.

"His forehead and that plate that covers the sinuses was detached from the rest of the skull," Schlott said.

When the animal breathed, he said, "he was just sucking air up into the brain. That gives you a sense of how severe the injury was.

"From what I understand, he was a pleasant dog," Schlott said.

He and Strickler placed the dog on a comforter and drove him in his truck to the University of Pennsylvania veterinary hospital, where it was euthanized.Source: Philadelphia Daily News - June 1, 2006
(This is the news article as it was  printed, with the correction by me of "it" being referred to as the dog, I have changed "it" to his and he, being the dog Otto.)

TINICUM -- A township man was charged with beating and stabbing his housemate’s dog that was later put down because of his severe injuries, authorities said. Gary Bradshaw, 41, was arrested Friday for cruelty to animals, possessing an instrument of crime and disorderly conduct, Police Superintendent Walter G. Fife Jr. said Saturday.

Bradshaw was also arrested for a bench warrant from Delaware County on an unrelated offense. Arraignment information was not immediately available.
"I am sure he is in jail," Fife said, noting a holiday schedule for the long Memorial Day weekend.

According to Fife, police were dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Bartram Avenue in Essington for a report of a subject beating a dog, about 2:30 p.m. Friday.

Upon arrival, Otto, described as a mixed breed, was found on the porch. The dog was bleeding from the head and the mouth.

"Tears came to my eyes and pain to my heart," said one man who witnessed the dog’s injuries.

Fife was not at the scene but said he was told that Bradshaw "claimed the dog attacked him." Subsequently, officers received conflicting information.

Township animal control officer Alan Strickler was on the scene and called associate Dave Schlott for assistance, Schlott said Saturday.

"The dog was just laying on the porch in a pool of blood," Schlott said. "He made no sounds.

"He was struggling to breathe," Schlott said.

Schlott said he was told that the dog, which weighed about 80 to 90 pounds, may have jumped up and bit Bradshaw on the lip.

It is suspected that Bradshaw beat the dog with a crowbar. The dog suffered blunt force trauma to the skull.

According to Schlott, he and Strickler got a comforter from inside the house and put it under the dog.

Later, the dog was put in Schlott’s truck and taken to Springfield Veterinary Hospital for initial evaluation. There, it was determined that the dog’s extensive injuries required the attention of the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Hospital.

Schlott, who was still at Penn at 6:30 p.m. Friday and admitted he "welled up" a few times throughout the lengthy call, said the veterinarians determined it would be in the best interest of the dog to have it put down.

"I just felt so bad," said Schlott. "This dog was so badly beaten." The dog was euthanized and a necropsy was scheduled to determine the full extent of its injuries.

Schlott said he and many others are interested to learn the results of that final study.

Animal cruelty offense is a misdemeanor under the state crime code. A person convicted of animal cruelty can be sentenced to serve a maximum of two years in jail and be fined. Advocates for animals have long complained that the punishment doled out to convicted animal abusers is too lenient.